In today's fast-paced world everyone feels the pressure to achieve positive results by accomplishing more with less. Yet, the only way to make that happen is to own it , respond with flexibility, and control what whatever you have the power to handle. but much of the work remains to be done by those who are still working. It's focus.

Before 2010, “if you didn’t work a full year, it was very hard to get the top [performance] ranking,” remembers Jennifer Allyn, the firm’s diversity-strategy leader. Worries about balancing work and family life rank among the biggest deterrents for both men and women in aiming for an executive role. There’s no such thing as work-life balance. MORE >>

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By comparison, 55% of 800 senior executives surveyed worldwide in 2010 by BlueSteps said they didn''t believe their work/life balance was satisfactory. Can you work long hours without sacrificing your personal life? More senior executives think that is possible. Global executives work an average of 58.5 John G. Related articles. MORE >>